If you come to the auditorium at MACBA this afternoon you can listen to the pieces of the 10 finalists of the 28thLuigi Russolo Award . This selection was made from the 48 compositions presented from 24 countries during the month of June in the Jury’s first deliberation. In today’s deliberation session the Jury will decide this year’s awards and for the third consecutive year we’ll host the Audience Award open session. We invite you to come and listen to the finalist’s pieces and participate in the vote as a special occasion to get closer to electroacoustic music and take part in this veteran and prestigious international award. The awards will be made public this same evening before Théo Martelet’s concert with the projection of Das Kabinett des Dr. Caligari in the same auditorium at MACBA.

Théo Martelet (electroacoustic device, trumpet) is a young composer born in the year 2000 whom upon discovering concrete music decided to create an infernal machine from sound objects with which to create his first composition Nautilus Progradation-an outrageus sonic combat- and to achieve 3rd place in the Luigi Russolo International Sound Art Competition at age 13. On the day which LEM dedicates to the award annually at MACBA, Théo Martelet will perform a live soundtrack to the German expressionist film Das Kabinett des Dr. Caligari, by Robert Wiene, which premiered in theatres in 1920, confronting new luthiers with the traditional form of the instrument. Trumpet and concrete music produced with AudioSulpt (Ircam) and Soundgrain (Granular synthesis) and treated with the GRM Tools at Studio Forum in Annecy. A DVD of the performance will be released by the Moscow label Monochromevision.